WHAT WE HAVE ALSO LEARNED: ADAPTIVE SPECTIATION IS THEORETICALLY PLAUSIBLE |
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| Authors: | Michael Doebeli Ulf Dieckmann Johan A. J. Metz Diethard Tautz |
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| Affiliation: | Departments of Zoology and Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada E-mail:;Adaptive Dynamics Network, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria E-mail:;Institute of Biology, Leiden University, P.O.Box 9516, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands E-mail:;Genetics Institute, University of Köln, Weyertal 121, D-50931 Köln, Germany E-mail: |
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| Abstract: | Abstract A recent Perspectives article by Gavrilets (2003) on the theory of speciation ignored advances in understanding processes of adaptive speciation, in which the splitting of lineages is an adaptation caused by frequency‐dependent selection. Adaptive, or sympatric, speciation has been modeled since the 1960s, but the large amount of attention from both empirical and theoretical biologists that adaptive speciation has received in recent years goes far beyond what was described in Gavrilets' paper. Due to conceptual advances based on the theory of adaptive dynamics, adaptive speciation has emergedj as a theoretically plausible evolutionary process that can occur in many different ecological settings. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptive dynamics adaptive speciation disruptive selection evolutionary branching frequency dependence speciation theory sympatric speciation. |
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